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VIETNAMESE
ARTICLES
26 June 2009
A Humble Heart (Part 6)
Dear friends, the more you know the Lord, even the holy
and almighty Creator and know yourselves as sinful creatures, the more
you will humble yourselves before Him to enjoy His grace and blessings
as “God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble”
(James 4:6). To keep yourselves humble, you have to look at the Lord
Jesus Christ and read God’s Word.
Look at the Lord Jesus and Read God’s Word:
If you look at the people around you and compare yourselves with them,
you may be proud of yourselves as good and decent persons because you do
not sin like them, nor tell lies, nor do wicked things, nor commit
adultery, nor are drunk or rude like them, etc. However, if you
look at the Lord Jesus, the Holy One, and compare yourselves with Him,
and if you read His Word like letting your hearts be reflected in a
mirror, then your hearts and minds with your proud thoughts, sinful
lusts, covetousness, hatred, envy, anger, bitterness, hypocrisy, selfish
motives, etc., will be exposed in the light of God’s Word, and then you
will see that you need His forgiveness and salvation. The Lord Jesus
came to call sinners to repentance, but not those who think that they
are righteous (Mark 2:17). The Lord Jesus tells a parable about two
persons going up into the temple to pray: a Pharisee who is a hypocrite
(Luke 12:1) and the other is a tax-collector. The Pharisee trusted in
himself that he was righteous and despised others, prayed within
himself, “God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are,
extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican
(tax-collector).” But the tax-collector would not lift up his
eyes to heaven and smote upon his chest, saying, “God, be merciful to
me a sinner.” And the Lord Jesus concluded that the tax-collector
was justified rather than the Pharisee, “for every one that exalteth
himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted”
(Luke 18:9-14).
Dear friends, do you look at the Lord Jesus and read
God’s Word? Please read our next article.
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